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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once did he foul out of a game, which says something about the way he played and who he was. Chamberlain hardly ever got into a fight--partly because only the ostentatiously suicidal would start up with him, more because he seemed to appreciate the gentleness that his construction required. He picked opposing players off the floor when they tripped and fell. That weird shot of his--the monstrous and graceful Dipper Dunk--had the look of a man pouring lava from a vat into a teacup...
DIED. MILT JACKSON, 76, jazz vibraphonist and improviser who co-founded the Modern Jazz Quartet; in New York City. Composer of the Quartet's signature Bags' Groove, Jackson got his start in Dizzy Gillespie's band and recorded with John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk...
...first wave of students arrives at 6:55 a.m. Six buses from downtown St. Louis pull in bearing the "deseg" kids, most of whom head for the cafeteria. The band members have practice most days before school; drowsy musicians start stumbling onto the field across from the entrance. Jacob Myerson is upstairs in a dim hallway, sitting on the floor outside Room 319, some 40 minutes early for class, studying vocabulary words. Histrionic. Poignant. Unkempt. Loquacious. He wants to go to Princeton...
...kind of engaging mutability: every song is a potential winner, and your favorite track changes with your mood. That's what Tracey Moore and Mercedes Martinez have created. The neo-soul singer-songwriters may have a ridiculously unwieldy group name, but their CD is fabulously smooth, good from start to finish. With old-school heart and new-school attitude, they're Roberta Flack plus Sade with a little D'Angelo thrown...
...start of every school year, he gives students a letter in which he tells them that he wants to help them excel, but that the real work is up to them. When he talks about his teaching philosophy, he turns serious. "It's not about the answers you get; it's about the questions you ask," says Yates. "I want them to be curious...